Alan Tyers

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

Look, we all admire Gary Neville's punchy passion and Roy Keane's fire and brimstone, but it can all get a bit much. It can feel like you have tuned in for three hours of being shouted at. That has its place, but how much Manchester United-related rage can you really handle before it gets repetitive? The football is the vanguard but it has been another big year for TNT more broadly.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

A few days ago, Ofcom received over a hundred complaints about TNT's broadcast of a Manchester United European win which saw Robbie Savage and Rio Ferdinand put the final nails in the coffin of the hopelessly fogeyish idea that sports commentators should be, or at least should try to appear to be, neutral.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

This writer once spent an evening in a snooker hall in King's Cross with O'Sullivan and White for some joint interview caper or other, and very enjoyable it was too. White, as we bade farewell, pulled me aside with a hushed offer of an intense-sounding side quest teased with the following cryptic clue: "a mate of ours is in prison because the government's put the bad arm on him" (no, not sure) "so we need someone from a proper paper to write something".

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

He had a hugely relatable backstory about his mum and dad working factory night shifts, three jobs, sacrificing everything to give their only child his start, brilliantly sold in that superb Nike TV advert alongside Tiger Woods. He puts me in mind of Wayne Rooney and Sir Andy Murray in that he has simultaneously achieved an enormous amount but critics had nevertheless felt the right to damn him with faint praise or claim that he should have won more.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alan Tyers

One defers to the experts when they say that fings ain't what they used to be, so it was lucky for racing that the Mullins father-and-son story provided a much better narrative than yet another routine win for the Closutton superpower. ITV's coverage on Saturday began with Brough Scott setting the scene and saying, don't worry about what it once was, celebrate it for what it is today. And the commentary of the race itself remains as it always has been: a complete nightmare.